Its been about a month since my blog moved to octopress, wanted to write about my experience. I had been running my blog for a some time now using Movable Type upgrading as and when new versions where released. Over time I realized that upgrading was fraught with errors as lot of steps had to be done manually. Customizing the layout was risky as there was no way to preview your changes and commit only when I was comfortable. With the release of Movable Type 6 there is no longer a free version to download.
Japanese translation of Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Designhas been released, thanks to Yasuo Honda for the information. The Japanese version can be found here
I’m always on the lookout for better tool support to do database refactoring. Just noticed that liquibase has come out with a IntelliJ plugin to support database refactoring.
This is really cool and hopefully one of long list of tools that will support database refactoring in the future. so enjoy
Me, Andy, Jeff and Marjorie discuss how to keep a long running project fit in this Podcast, also on iTunes. We discuss the management of technology, people, processes and tools on longer and more mature applications. Specific topics such as refactoring, knowledge management, innovation, staffing, production support and others are covered.
After a lot of frustration about my schedule, I have had to come to this conclusion, that I cannot physically make it to London, XP day.
I’m going to miss it. Nick Ashley is going to take up my spot and I know he will do a great job.
Thoughtworks is going to be at Oracle Open World. I’m excited about this especially since it will give ThoughtWorks and Me to talk about software practices and how to apply these software practices to the database development world, off course I will talk about my books Refactoring Databases and Continuous Database Integration. ThoughtWorks will have a booth at 343 Moscone South and I will be there on Nov 14.
I will be presenting about Evolutionary Database Design and Database Refactoring at ThoughtWorks Master Class Series 2007 at Bangalore on May 19th and Pune on May 26. This will be the first time I will be presenting in India.
After finishing the first Refactoring Databases book. I started on a short ebook project, this book was going to tackle on a very specific technical topic mentioned in the first book. I wanted to write about all the specific scenarios and all the techniques I follow on the various projects.